FSU West - Part II
We still miss Tallahassee (and our Seminoles a lot), but we now have 2 ex-Seminoles here at UTEP (University of Texas El Paso). This week, when classes started Fred Rouse was enrolled and in attendance. Although he will have to sit out this year, he'll still have 2 years of eligibility remaining. If he can stay out of trouble, he should really add some excitement to the team.
The other ex-Nole is Lorne Sam. He sat out last year and is ready to play this year. Although he'll be used mainly as a receiver and returner this year, his goal is to win the starting QB job. Because of his versatility, he will see some (very) limited action this year in that position, but Jordan Palmer (Carson Palmer's brother) is a senior and the starter. Next year Lorne Sam might have a shot though.
All I can say is that we'll take any other ex-Noles.
Floods in the Desert
As many of you know, Lucy and I moved from Tallahassee to the desert because of Lucy's allergies and especially how bad they would get whenever it rained (which happened quite often in Tally). So, we moved to El Paso with an average ANNUAL rainfall of 8-9 inches. Well, about 2 weeks ago when most of the nation was suffering through a drought, the rains came to El Paso. Some areas of the city got more than 15 inches in a couple of days. Yes, that's double the annual average in 2 days. Needless to say, El Paso's drainage system wasn't equipped for that, the ground was rock hard and the damns and levies overflowed. The result was the worst flooding in 100 or 500 years (depending on which report you read) in this area. Thousands have been flooded out of their homes.
After about a week of rain, we did get a week to help dry the city out. But, it started again yesterday, with about 1.5 inches in some parts of the city which was enough to cause some more flooding (in some of the same neighborhoods that were hit the worst a couple of weeks ago). And, now it is coming down very hard again as I'm typing this.
I had been involved in a couple of large projects and just hadn't had the time to keep up blogging (plus when you live a boring life, there isn't much to write about), but hopefully I'll be able to post a little more regularly.
Windows Live Writer
Microsoft has been releasing a number of "Windows Live" applications (mostly still in beta) and some are very useful. On August 14th, they released the beta version of Windows Live Writer which I am using to compose this blog. The program is used to compose blogs and then publish them to whatever blogging server you use (it can even publish to multiple services if you use more than one). There are several features I like about this program. First, there is a built in spell checker (Calyn will appreciate that). There is also a Flickr plugin so that you can insert Flickr images into your blog.
There are some other options that are great, but don't seem to work with Blogger yet (remember, this is the first beta release). For example, it has the capability to insert pictures directly from your computer and also custom Windows Live Local maps (similar to Google or Yahoo maps) directly. The problem is that blogger will not accept the included pictures at this time (except the "Insert Flickr Image" ones).
OK, if the Insert Flickr Image worked, where am I in the below picture? (I know there will be some correct guesses.)
